I don't think 'hack' can be fairly applied to the guy who created Star Wars and Indiana Jones.

I loathed the 'vibe' of The Force Unleashed: it felt like a Star Wars mod for God of War, and, while Star Wars has plenty of dark stuff in it, it's not the posturing-badass-who-holds-his-lightsaber-like-a-teenage-cretin-and-can-wipe-the-floor-with-all-the-characters-from-the-films kind of dark dark.

I always heard one of the Grans' lines of alien dialogue as 'I've said this enough'.

When I was a kid I had a recurring nightmare about The Falling Ship, complete with the game's random and recurrent explosion animations and glimpses of the endless valley you could see below you when you finally found the Moldy Crow.

When I was 9 my friend showed me Dark Forces on his family's old computer. My family had just got a PC (this was 1998, our first computer, so I'd no experience of PC videogaming and had only played my friends' playstations), and it was the run up to Christmas, so 'Dark Forces' went on the top of my Christmas list.…

But Lucas wanted the force in light and dark sides because of what he was trying to do with his story, which was to create a fun adventure story with a straightforward, positive moral message. What the EU authors did was (out of necessity - Star Wars was not conceived as something which could sustain hundreds of…

Ending the last film in the story (as it stood then) with a galaxy-wide celebration isn't lazy, regardless of how unrealistic it might be. Nor was it a change - audiences in 1983 were meant to think the Rebellion had won. The extra scenes are just a nice way (I think they're the only new scenes in the Special Editions…